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from one to three acres of winter wheat for more than twenty 

 years, and during that time have carefully noted the result, 

 and am satisfied with ray course, although in some instances I 

 have had a partial failure. But on the whole, I am satisfied 

 that I have obtained more bushels of wheat from the same 

 ground than I could have had of rye, to say nothing of the dif- 

 ference in the value of the two grains. I am sure tliat wheat 

 is the best crop to follow tobacco, for the land is all fitted — 

 nothing to do but plough the land and sow the seed. Next to 

 this, green sward turned in in August, and sown in September, 

 with a light dressing of compost or ashes, and the surface well 

 pulverized, will ensure a good crop. 



Westfield, November, 18G0. 



StatemeM of H. 31. Sessions. 



Spring Wheat. — On the 12th of April last one acre of land 

 was ploughed, and on the 16th, sowed with one and a half 

 bushels of White Bald-wheat, and three pecks of grass seed. 

 August 7th, fifty shocks of grain were harvested that yielded 

 twenty-seven bushels of wheat, weighing sixty-one pounds to 

 the bushel. The year previous the land was broken up and 

 planted with potatoes. Before this, it had been pastured near 

 thirty years. A part of the lot was underdrained, it being too 

 wet for any crop. Sixteen loads of manure were ploughed 

 under each year, consisting of the scrapings of yards and pens, 

 chip-dirt, old plastering, &c. Thirty bushels of .leached ashes 

 were harrowed in with the wheat. The wheat was soaked 

 twelve hours in brine and rolled in lime and plaster before sow- 

 ing. After the wheat and grass seed were sown the lot was set 

 with apple trees. The part that was underdrained being rather 

 cold and heavy, yielded but little wheat, but promises well for 

 grass. 



Value of 27 bushels wheat, 854 00 



Straw, 17 00 



871 00 



